Hua is a young woman from remote northwestern China who takes a factory job in Shanghai. The work is tedious, wrist-aching and spirit-defeating. The hours are very long. On her only day off, she receives a phone call relaying some tragic news. Once back in her village, reminders of the past appear. She wonders what she should do with her life. A mysterious text message only increases her doubt.

Back in 1970, an unmanageable Australian lad can't wait to see the world. After fleeing from adult supervision once again, he decides to hitch a ride on a DC-8 jetliner at the Sydney airport. It all starts off real well in the wheel well. But, then ...
Closely based on a photo-captured real-life tragedy.
Approx. 1100 words.
If this tale were a movie, it would probably be rated G (all ages ok).

Are you game to find the greatest ever treasure that had been hidden by great emperor Ashoka, the treasure that can transform India into a developed and powerful country.
What are you waiting for........ Find The Treasure and Change The Future.

It’s 1953 and scientist-turned P.I. Noel Glass is tortured with the guilt of an early experiment gone awry. When a rich recluse offers proof that the accident was a set-up, Glass swears to clear his name. However, a clandestine organization is trying to conquer the world using his “failed” invention, but Glass stands in their way. Who can he trust when everyone has secrets?

A dedicated son, a loving husband. And surefire poverty that threatens to destroy lives. This short story seeks to uncover the harsh reality that thousands of families in Southeast Asia live in. Based on one man's true story that begs to be told to spread awareness and help fight poverty.

Ìwà: A Phoenix’s Appearing is a short folk story written by Tito O’tobi. The story follows a sequence of events that brings Oòduwà in contact with a princess while he is running away from his destiny as predicted by the oracle at Òyó.
This short story is an excerpt from the popular trilogy, The Hunchback of Langbodo.

In 1972 a disgraced college professor and a retired FBI agent set out to find the final resting place of the legendary Treasure of the Knights Templar. Days later, both men disappear without a trace.
Forty years later, spurred on by the discovery of a long lost manuscript, the Professor’s son hires historians Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh to pick up where his father left off.

Can Erasmus and Roka overcome the fiendish defences of the Factory? Will the diabolical agents of the Clockwork Garden stop them, or will Sir Tantalus himself step in? Who will learn the Factory's terrible secrets? The final part of a breathtaking adventure through an alternative Edwardian Britain and beyond, where clockwork automata and their makers threaten to change the world forever.

With the diabolical agents of the Clockwork Garden on their trail and Sir Tantalus Blackmore's crooked men closing in, Kora and her friend Erasmus Darwin must survive from day to day and try to uncover the monstrous plots surrounding them. A breathtaking adventure through an alternative Edwardian Britain and beyond, where clockwork automata and their makers threaten to change the world forever.

A girl with two souls and a father who will stop at nothing, gets drawn into a breathtaking adventure through an alternative Edwardian Britain and beyond, where clockwork automata and their makers threaten to change the world forever.

Ace aviator and adventurer extraordinaire Nathaniel Cannon, along with his gang of sky pirates, search the jungles of Java for a long-lost city of an ancient kingdom. Treasure and fame await them if they succeed, but old foes chasing the same prize are determined to see them fail.

John F. Kennedy lives and Oswald dies in a hail of police bullets on a far different day in Dallas than the one we know from books and movies. And in the aftermath, could the world be set on a course for World War III and America torn apart from within as one conspiracy falls apart while other ones are set in motion. Find out in the pages of All the Way with JFK: an Alternate History of 1964.

So, moving upper on the food chain..., what about us? What would the correct number of humans be per city, country or continent or are we past that number and is it already too late? Or has mother earth already been working on a solution to ensure we fall back in line with the rest of the species; using her smallest soldiers...?

After trying on an authentic WW2 paratrooper's uniform, young Christian Smith finds himself in Holland, 1944, hours before the start of Operation Market Garden. But that's not all. Christian has a book in his rucksack--a book his granddad lent him: The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery. And once ol' Monty gets his hands on that, you can be sure he's going to rewrite history, any way he can...